Faith & Logic: Reaction to a church under fire

It was recently learned that when he was in charge of the office of church discipline, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was slow to respond to a request to be defrocked by an East Bay priest who had pleaded no contest to lewd conduct charges. [San Fransisco Chronicle]

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff |
Source & Credit: The Star | Toronto | April 3, 2010
By Manahil Shahnawaz | SanMateo, Calif.

The Vatican's complacency in holding child molesters accountable for their crimes against innocent, vulnerable children is wrong because it is breeding dangerous criminals in our society. The Catholic clergy should realize the trauma that a child undergoes when he is sexually assaulted.

The 200 deaf children molested by a Wisconsin priest have lived for years bearing the scars of the torture inflicted upon them. Child sexual abuse in the Catholic clergy requires strict laws to ensure that the criminals are prosecuted in a court of law and brought to justice.

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